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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:07:38 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199808260507.BAA14251@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: sl AT psycode DOT com
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <iCdMCj1ZQ5j2-pn2-MVnOqveQHhFc@portC20.Generation.NET>
(sl AT psycode DOT com DOT REMOVE_THIS)
Subject: Re: RHIDE Problems (C++ Headers)

> 	But setting LFN to 'y' makes no real sense.. Not _EVERYONE_ has 
> access to LFNs.. I run under OS/2 which only supports FAT-16..

Give us some credit for intelligence.  Setting LFN to 'y' by default
makes sense, because DJGPP isn't stupid enough to try to use LFNs on a
file system that doesn't support it.  If you're running under OS/2,
DJGPP will simply ignore the setting of LFN and do the Right Thing,
since that's all it *can* do.

LFN only affects Win95 (or other lfn-aware OSs), in in those cases
where LFN matters, "y" seems to always be the right choice.

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